Alas, another of the many churches not open to the public. I’ll pop back another time, perhaps?
I love the name of this village… Friday Bridge! I wonder how it got that name? A quick look online yields this:
Friday Bridge is Fridayesbrugg ‘1298Ass , Frydaybrigge 1340 Imb.fridai is the name of a fishery of the monks of Ely in 1086 (InqEl), later Frideiwere (1251ElyCouch ). There was also a Fryday lake 1570 Imb in Elm. In Haddenham also we have Frydaye weyr 1549Ct , Frydayeware1608AddCh , and near Whittlesey we have Fridaylake , Fridaylone 1244, 1286 Rams. These should probably be associated with fishing by the monks for Friday fare and not be associated with other Fridaynames discussed in PN Sr 410–11.
Talking of names, my fascination with churches has me wondering why, after the split wi’ Rome, all those years ago, are so many churches still styled ‘St [insert patron Saint here]’?
Whilst delivering for Amazon/Morrisons, I saw this knackered old diesel loco’. Two guys were nearby, so I stopped briefly and chatted with them. Turns out this might be the future ‘gate guard’ for the putative Bramley Line heritage railway, a local project aiming to reopen an old disused line ‘twixt March and Wisbech.
I told the chaps, Clive and Dave, I/we might like to pitch in, and get involved. They gave me several leaflets. It’d be good to have a heritage line on our doorstep. And March really should have one, being as the ol’ marshalling yards were once a major hub.